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We investigate the space complexity of solving linear systems of equations. While all known deterministic or randomized algorithms solving a square system of $n$ linear equations in $n$ variables require $\Omega(\log^2 n)$ space, Ta-Shma…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2016-08-05 François Le Gall

Spike sorting is a class of algorithms used in neuroscience to attribute the time occurences of particular electric signals, called action potential or spike, to neurons. We rephrase this problem as a particular optimization problem : Lasso…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2022-04-12 Laurent Dragoni , Rémi Flamary , Karim Lounici , Patricia Reynaud-Bouret

The Johnson-Lindenstrauss Lemma states that there exist linear maps that project a set of points of a vector space into a space of much lower dimension such that the Euclidean distance between these points is approximately preserved. This…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-01-18 Pierre-Louis Poirion , Bruno F. Lourenço , Akiko Takeda

Quadratic constrained quadratic programming problems often occur in various fields such as engineering practice, management science, and network communication. This article mainly studies a non convex quadratic programming problem with…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-12-29 Bo Zhang , YueLin Gao , Xia Liu , XiaoLi Huang

Many probabilistic inference tasks involve summations over exponentially large sets. Recently, it has been shown that these problems can be reduced to solving a polynomial number of MAP inference queries for a model augmented with randomly…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2013-09-27 Stefano Ermon , Carla P. Gomes , Ashish Sabharwal , Bart Selman

When applying machine learning to problems in NLP, there are many choices to make about how to represent input texts. These choices can have a big effect on performance, but they are often uninteresting to researchers or practitioners who…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2015-03-03 Dani Yogatama , Noah A. Smith

Basis pursuit is the problem of finding a vector with smallest $\ell_1$-norm among the solutions of a given linear system of equations. It is a well-known convex relaxation of the sparse affine feasibility problem, where sparse solutions to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-29 Roger Behling , Yunier Bello-Cruz , Luiz-Rafael Santos , Paulo J. S. Silva

We describe an apparatus for subgradient-following of the optimum of convex problems with variational penalties. In this setting, we receive a sequence $y_i,\ldots,y_n$ and seek a smooth sequence $x_1,\ldots,x_n$. The smooth sequence needs…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-11 Kai-Chia Mo , Shai Shalev-Shwartz , Nisæl Shártov

Much effort has been directed at algorithms for obtaining the highest probability configuration in a probabilistic random field model known as the maximum a posteriori (MAP) inference problem. In many situations, one could benefit from…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2012-10-19 Dhruv Batra

We consider a class of integer linear programs (IPs) that arise as discretizations of trust-region subproblems of a trust-region algorithm for the solution of control problems, where the control input is an integer-valued function on a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-06-06 Marvin Severitt , Paul Manns

A classical reduced order model for dynamical problems involves spatial reduction of the problem size. However, temporal reduction accompanied by the spatial reduction can further reduce the problem size without losing accuracy much, which…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-10-04 Youngsoo Choi , Peter Brown , Bill Arrighi , Robert Anderson

Recent progress in LLM-driven algorithm discovery, exemplified by DeepMind's AlphaEvolve, has produced new best-known solutions for a range of hard geometric and combinatorial problems. This raises a natural question: to what extent can…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-01-16 Timo Berthold , Dominik Kamp , Gioni Mexi , Sebastian Pokutta , Imre Pólik

We consider the linear least squares problem with linear equality constraints (LSE problem) formulated as $\min_{x\in\mathbb{R}^{n}}\|Ax-b\|_2 \ \mathrm{s.t.} \ Cx = d$. Although there are some classical methods available to solve this…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-01-06 Haibo Li

Short integer linear programs are programs with a relatively small number of constraints. We show how recent improvements on the running-times of solvers for such programs can be used to obtain fast pseudo-polynomial time algorithms for…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-02-09 Danny Hermelin , Dvir Shabtay

Integer linear programming (ILP) models a wide range of practical combinatorial optimization problems and significantly impacts industry and management sectors. This work proposes new characterizations of ILP with the concept of boundary…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-03-04 Peng Lin , Shaowei Cai , Mengchuan Zou , Jinkun Lin

Linear constraints are the linear counterpart of Haskell's class constraints. Linearly typed parameters allow the programmer to control resources such as file handles and manually managed memory as linear arguments. Indeed, a linear type…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2026-04-24 Arnaud Spiwack , Csongor Kiss , Jean-Philippe Bernardy , Nicolas Wu , Richard A. Eisenberg

We propose a low-rank transformation-learning framework to robustify subspace clustering. Many high-dimensional data, such as face images and motion sequences, lie in a union of low-dimensional subspaces. The subspace clustering problem has…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2013-08-02 Qiang Qiu , Guillermo Sapiro

In this work, we develop an optimization framework for problems whose solutions are well-approximated by Hierarchical Tucker (HT) tensors, an efficient structured tensor format based on recursive subspace factorizations. By exploiting the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-05-12 Curt Da Silva , Felix J. Herrmann

Partial least squares regression (PLSR) has been a popular technique to explore the linear relationship between two datasets. However, most of algorithm implementations of PLSR may only achieve a suboptimal solution through an optimization…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-09-22 Haoran Chen , Yanfeng Sun , Junbin Gao , Yongli Hu , Baocai Yin

In the development of industrial digital twins, the optimization problem of technological and business processes often arises. In many cases, this problem can be reduced to a large-scale linear programming (LP) problem. The article is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-02-16 Leonid B. Sokolinsky , Irina M. Sokolinskaya